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lie (aroful Vliat Yon Say.
In speakinff of jjorsons faults,
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Keincinler, those with homes of glass
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Don't speak of others' faults until
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Finance and Trade.
Special ( 'orrespondeiice.
New York, Feb. C, 181)4.
Business improvement during the
last week lias made further progress.
There lias been no increase in specu
lation: but the distribution of manu
factured jjoods has been larger, and
the gradual expansion of demand has
led to additional resumptions by re
cently idle mills and factories. Fi
nancial confidence has been strength
ened by the absorption of the new
loan, which will recoup the reserves
of the Treasury and maintain its
ability to continue old payments.
The passage of the Tariff bill by the
House had been anticipated, and has
had no effect except in so far as it
has lessened uncertainty by the con
clusion of the first important stage
of legislation on this subject. Im
provement in business is evidenced
by the fact that the offerings of com
mercial paper have been a little
larger: but the demands of reviving
trade have as yet made little impres
sion upon the loan market, as the
supply of idle capital is still large be
yond all precedent.
Distribution and consumption in
all departments, however, are slow
ly out steaoiiy expanding; and as
the season for active operations for
spring wants is now at hand, and
merchandise stocks in most lines are
in need of replenishment, there is
good reason to anticipate a continu
ance of the improvement. Foreign
trade returns continue to show a
moderate enlargement of exports,
and a relatively large decrease of im
ports. The latter in four weeks at
New York have declined $19,(h;!),2)2,
while January exports from this port
increased $3,70(5.770. The failures
during the last week throughout the
United States and Canada aggregat
ed 418. a decrease of (57 from the to
tal for the preceding week, but an
increase of 117 over the total for the
corresponding week of last year.
The downward tendency of cotton
prices has continued, and as compar
ed with figures current a week ago
the markets are about I of a cent
lower. The portward movement has
fallen off a little, but so far during
this week has exceeded that of the
corresponding period last year; thus
preventing any accession of bullish
confidence to speculation. Demand
from spinners has not improved, and
their current weekly takings fall be
low those of last season. The com
parative decrease in spinners' pur
chases from September 1 to the close
of last week was 14!), 320 bales. Ex
ports in the same period increased
713,000 bales; and in five days of last
week there was a further gain in
shipments of 40.000 bales.
"Wheat prices have advanced to :J
of a cent per bushel, owing to lighter
interior receipts, a small reduction
in visible stocks and a growing re
luctance among speculators to sell
''short" at ruling prices during the
season of possible damage to the
growing crop. Thus far during the
winter, however, the fall sown grain
has escaped serious injury; and in the
absence of crop scares the develop
ment of bullish sentiment in the
markets has been "held in check by
the large stocks. Exports during
four weeks of January approximated
12.000.000 bushels, and were only
i slightly less than thev were during
the corresponding period last year,
j Prices of corn have declined j to
s of a cent, notwithstanding a mark-
ed decrease in interior receipts and a
j well sustained demand for export.
! Very little new business in corn has
been done in the West for Eastern
shipment since freight rates were
dvanced.
"I don't like the breath of that stove:''
exclaimed little Ethel one day when the
gas was escaping from the sitting-room
stove. Coal-gas is like the "perfumes of
India,"' compared with the breath of
a person alllicted with catarrh, but
among many other svmptoms the sense
of smell is often deadened, so the suffer
er is unconscious of the olTensiveness of
his presence. Why any one will endure
such a painful, dangerous and offensive
disease, when Dr. Sage's Catarrh Rem
edycosting only 50 cents will cure
the most stubborn ease, is one of the
many mysteries. The proprietors are so
contident of the success of this great ca
tarrh remedy, that they offer to forfeit
o00 for any case of catarrh they cannot
cure. It would be suicide for their
remedy, for them to make this of
fer, unless they understood its exact
powers.
DEVIL BILL'S CONVERSION.
Arp
Tells How a Tough Sinner
Was
IJrouglit to Repentance.
Republished by request.
Uncle Tom Barker was much of a
man. He had been wild and reck
less, and feared not God nor regard
ed man, but one day at a camp meet
ing, while Bishop Gaston was shaking
up the sinners and scorching them
over the infernal pit, Tom got alarm
ed and before the meeting was over
he professed religion and became a
zealous, outspoken convert, and de
clared his intention of going forth
into the world and preaching the
gospel. He was terribly in earnest,
for he said he had lost a power of
time and must make it up. Tom
was a rough talker, but he was a
good one, and knew right smart of
"scripter"' and a good many of the
old-fashioned hymns by heart. The
conference thought he would be a
good fellow to send out in the border
country among the settlers, and so
Tom saddled his old flea-bitten gray,
and in due time was circuit riding in
north Mississippi. In course of time
Tom acquired notoriety, and from
his strong language and stronger
gestures, and his muscular eloquence,
they called him old '"Sledge Ham
mer,'' and after awhile, old ''Sledge,"
for short.
A way down in one corner of his
territory there was a blacksmith
shop, a wagon shop and a whiskey
shop and a postoffiee at Bill Jones'
cross roads; and Bill kept all of them,
and was known far and wide as
"Devil Bill Jones," so as to distin
guish him from 'Squire Bill, the mag
istrate. Devil Bill had swore that
no preacher should ever toot a horn
or sing a. hymn in the settlement,
and if any of the cussed hypocrits
ever dared to stop at the crossroads,
he'd make him dance a hornpipe and
sing ii hymn, and whip him besides.
And Bill Jones meant just what he
said, for he had a mortal hate for the
men of God. It was reasonably sup
posed that Bill could and would do
just what he said, for his trade at
the anvil had made him strong, and
everybodj' knew that he had as much
brute courage as was necessary. And
so Uncle Tom was advised to take
roundance and never tackle the cross
roads.
He accepted this for a time and left
the people to the bad influence of
Devil Bill; but it seemed to him that
he was not doing the Lord's will, and
whenever he thought of the women
and children living in darkness and
growing' up in infidelity, he would
groan in spirit and exclaim '"What a
pity! what a pitj'!'' One night he
prayed over it in great earnestness,
and vowed to do the .Lord's will if
the Lord would give him light, and
it seemed to him as he rose from his
knees that there was no longer any
doubt he must go. Uncle Tom nev
er dallied about anj-thing' when his
mind was made up. He went right
at it like killing snakes; so next
morning as a nabor passed on his
way to Bill Jones' shop, Uncle Tom
said: "My friend will you please car
ry a message to Bill Jones for me?
Do you tell him that if the Lord is
wiliin' I will be at the crossroads to
preach next Saturday at 11 o'clock,
and I am shore the Lord is willin'.
Tell him to please norate it in the
settlement about and about, and ax
the women and children to come.
Tell Bill Jones I will stay at his
house, God willin', and I'm shore he's
willin', and I'll preach Sunday, too,
if things get along harmonious."
"When Bill Jones got the message
he was amazed, astounded, and his
indignation knew no bounds. He
raved and cursed at the "onsult," as
he called it the "onsulting message
of old 'Sledge' " and he swore that
he would hunt him up and whip him,
for he knowed he wouldn't dare to
come to the crossroads. But the
neighbors whispered it around that
old "Sledge" would come, for he was
never known to make an appoint
ment and break it; and there was an
old horse thief who used to run with
Murrell's gang, who said he used to
know Tom Barker when he was a
sinner and had seen him fight, and
he was much of a man. So it spread
like wild fire that old "Sledge" was
coming, and Devil Bill was gwine to
w hin him and make him dance and
sing a hime and treat to a gallon of
peach brandy besides.
Devil Bill had his enemies, of
course, for he was a hard man, and
one waj' or anather had gobbled up
all of the surplus of the naborhood
and had given nothing in exchange
but whiskey,and these enemies had
long hoped for somebody to come and
turn him down. Thejr, too, circulat
ed the astounding news, and witlQt
committing themselves to either par
ti', said that h 11 would break loose
on Saturdaj' at the crossroads, and
that "Qld Sledge" or the devil would
have to go under. On Friday the
settlers began to drop into the cross
roads under the pretense of business,
but really to get the bottom facts of
the rumors that were afloat. Devil
Bill knew full well what they came
for, and he talked and cursed more
furiously than usual, and swore that
anybodr who would come expecting
to see "Old Sledge" to-morrow was
an infernal fool, for he wasn't a-com-
ing. He laid bare his strong arms
and shook his long hair, and said he
wished the lying, deceiving hypocrite
would come, for it had been nigh on
to fourteen years since he had made
a preacher dance.
Saturday morning by nine o'clock
the settlers began to gather.' They
came on foot and on horseback, and
in carts men, women and children,
and before 10 o'clock there were more
people at the crossroads than had
ever been there before. Bill Jones
was mad at their credulity, but he
had an eye to business and kept be
hind his counter and sold more whis
key in an hour than he had sold in a
month. As the appointed hour drew
near the settlers began to look down
the long, straight road that "Old
Sledge" would come, if he came at
all, and every man whose head came
in sight just over the rise of the dis
tant hill was closely scrutinized.
More than once they said, "Yonder
he comes that's him shore." But
no, it wasn't him. Some half a doz
en had old bull's eje silverwatehes
and they compared time, and just at
10:33 o'clock the horse thief exclaim
ed: "I see Tom Barker a risin' of the
hill. I hain't seed him for eleven
years, but gintlemen, that ar' him, or
I'm a liar."
And it was him. As he got near
er and nearer, a voice seemed to be
coming with him, and some one said,
"He's talkin' to himself," another
said, "He's a-talkin' to God Al
mighty," and another said, "I'll be
durned if he ain't a praying," but
very soon it was decided that he was
"singin' of a hime." Bill Jones was
soon advised of all this, and comin.
up to the front said: "Darned if he
ain't singing before I axed him, but
I'll make him sing another tune till
he is tired. I'll pay him for his on
suiting message. I am not a-gwine
to kill him, boj-s, I will leave life in
his rotten old carcass, but that's all
If any of you want to hear Old
Sledge preach vou will have to go
ten miles from the roads to do it
Slowly and solemnl' the preacher
came. As he drew near he narrowed
down his tune and looked kindh upon
the crowa. lie was a massive man
in frame, and had a heavy suit of
dark brown hair; but his face was
clean shaved, and showed a nose and
lips and chin of firmness and great
determination. "Look at him, boys,
and mind your eyes," said the horse
thief.
"Where will I find my friend Bill
Jones?" inquired Old Sledge. All
around they pointed him to the man.
Riding up close he said: "My friend
and brother, the good Lord has sent
me to 3'ou, and I ask your hospitality
for myself and my beast," and he
slowty dismounted and faced his foe
as though expecting a kind reply.
The crisis had come and Bill Jones
met it. "You infernal oldhypocrite;
you cussed old shaved-faced scoun
drel; didn't j'ou know that I had
swored an oath to make you sing and
dance, and whip you besides, if j-ou
ever dared to pizen these crossroads
with your shoe tracks? Now sing,
d n you, sing, and dance as you
sing," and he emphasized his com
mand with a ringing slap with his
open hand upon the parson's face.
Old Sledge recoiled with pain and
surprise. Recovering in a moment,
he said: "Well, Brother Jones, I did
not expect so warm a welcome, but
if this be j'our crossroads manners I
suppose I must sing," as Devil Bill
gave him another slap on his other
jaw, he began with:
"My soul, be on thy guard,"
And with his long arm suddenly
and swiftly gave Devil Bill an open
hander that nearly knocked him off
his feet, whilst the parson continued
to sing in a splendid Lenor voice:
"Ten thousand foes arise."
Never was a lion more aroused to
frenzy than was Bill Jones. With
his powerful arm he made at Old
Sledge as if to annihilate him with
one blow, and many horrid oaths,
but the parson fended off the blow as
easily as a practiced boxer, and with
his left hand dealt Bill a settler on
his peepers as he continued to sing
' "Oh. watch, and light, and pray,
The battle ne'er give o'er."
But Jones was plucky to despera
tion, and the settlers were watching
with bated breath. The crisis was
at hand and he squared himself, and
his clinched fists flew thick and fast
upon the parson's frame, and for
a while disturbed his equilibrium
and his song. But he rallied quickly
and began the offensive, as he sang:
"Ne'er think the victory won.
Nor lay thine armor down "
He backed his adversary squarely
to the wall of the shop, and seized
him by the throat and mauled him as
he sang:
"Fight on, my soul, till death "
Well, the long and short of it was,
that Old Sledge whipped him, and
humbled him to the ground and then
lifted him up and helped" to restore
him, and begged a thousand pardons.
When Devil Bill had retired to his
house and was being cared for by his
wife, Old Sledge mounted a box in
front of the grocery and preached
righteousness, and temperance, and
judgment to come, to that people.
He closed his solemn discourse
with a brief history of his own sinful
life before his conversion and his
OOXTINTED OX SECOND PAGE.
A NATION'S DOINGS.
Tlie News From Everywhere Gathered
and Condensed.
Dr. Talmage intends soon to take
a five month's trip around the world.
Fire destroyed $330,000 worth of
business property at Omaha, Neb.,
Saturday evening.
A furious storm swept over Colum
bus, Miss., Saturday evening, doing
considerable damage.
A gas explosion in a coal mine
near Mahanoy City, Pa., on Friday,
caused the death of four miners.
Safe breakers got $11,000 from the
trkadelphia Lumber Company's
store, at Delark, Ark., Saturday
night.
Quarreling with Hiram Osborne, a
rival hotel keeper, Walter Brown, of
Northville, N. Y., fatally shot him,
Friday.
A broken rail hurled three passen
ger cars down an embankment near
Clio, Ala., Friday, fatally injuring
three persons.
A falling tree killed Mrs. John F.
McDowell, near Anniston, Ala., Mon
day, while she was watclung her son
cutting it down.
In a drunken ranch quarrel near
Compton, Cal., Thursday, John B.
Johnson and his son George shot
each other dead.
Nearly every business house and
more than half of the residences at
Des Plaines, 111., were destroyed by
fire Saturdaj' night.
Settling an old feud, John Schultze,
of Becker, Mo., shot dead his son-in-law
Henry Fries, Friday, and when
arrested killed himself.
Falling from the centre of Wash
ington Bridge, at New York, Fri
day, William Brunner, a manufac
turer, was instantly killed.
The treasury of Chicago is empty,
and officials are charged with extrav
agance. Salaries of all city employ
es are to be cut to the bone.
For forging the name of Mrs. Fan
nie Lowry Porter to six notes, Harry
Hill was convicted at Atlanta, Sat
urday, after a five days' trial.
Three robbers bound and gagged
Banker E. P. Robertson and his
wife in their Chicago home, Friday
night, but got only $20 in plunder.
While fooling with an "unloaded"
revolver, Frank II. Jones, a young
lawyer of Seattle, Wash., shot and
killed himself in his office on Satur
day. "
During a wedding celebration at
Cleveland, O., Thursday night, Miss
Louisa Mayer seized a svtpposed
empty rifle and fatally shot Miss An
nie Cowen.
At Crow, Ky., Thursday, five men
were instantly killed by the explo
sion of a boiler in a saw mill, caused
by the running of cold water into
the hot boiler.
Returning to his meat market, af
ter a brief absence, M. P. Erickson,
of St. Paul, Minn., was shot dead by
a thief, Saturday night, who was
robbing the till.
With a broomstick, Henry Hill,
aged 20, struck his mother a blow on
the head at their home in Philadel
phia, Sunday, which resulted in her
death soon after.
A colored highwayman, Amos
Keen, who attempted to hold up and
rob E. F. Kunkle, depot agent at
Valley Forge, Pa., Saturday night,
was shot dead by the latter.
During an altercation between
George B. Swift and his son Joseph,
near Clarkesville,Tenn., Monda-, the
father was fatally stabbed with a
knife in the hands of his son.
While playing with a pistol, Mon
day night. Miss Maggie Trulock, of
Decatur, 111., accidentally shot and
killed her betrothed, David Lambert.
She supposed the pistol was unloaded.
Rev. D. G. Cook, colored, was as
sassinated Sunday night while re
turning from services at his church
in Faj'etteville, Term. Jones Clark,
colored, has been arrested on sus
picion. Being rejected by his sweetheart,
Miss Carrie Andrews, Walter John-
sou invaded the parlor of a Boston
music school, Saturday, and killed
his sweetheart and himself with a
revolver.
Two small children of Mrs. Mary
Dawson, of Blanesville, Va.;were
burned to death Sunday night, while
locked up in the house. Two other
children escaped by jumping from
the windows.
Since a large quantity of arsenic
has been found in the stomach of the
late Herman Groenke at Racine,
Wis., his widow who has married
again since his death, was arrested
Saturday on suspicion.
After a heroic effort to rescue his
brother John who had fallen into the
dock at Jersey City, Friday, while
attempting to catch an outgoing
boat, ' Alfred Morey, aeed 25, of
Ridge wood, N. J. was drowned
A terrific windstorm blew down
the Congregational church at Gate
City, Ala., Tuesday night, seriously
injuring several persons. The Chris
tian Endeavor Society, composed of
thirty women and children, were
holding a meeting at the time, all of
whom were more or less hurt.
National Capital Matters.
From our Regular Correspondent.
Washington', D. C, Feb. 3, 1894.
The Wilson bill, with the income
and other internal taxes in it, passed
the House Thursday evening by a
vote of 204 to 140, (a majority of 04),
amid the enthusiasm of most of the
Democrats. The income tax spoiled
it for the Eastern Democrats, and
some of the Southern Democrats re
gretted some of the tariff features
likewise. The bill went to the Sen
ate yesterday, where it was referred
to the Finance Committee, which is
preparing to give it a thorpugh over
hauling, with a view to proposing
possible amendments. No one can
tell how long it will be in the Finance
Committee, nor in the Senate after
wards, nor what changes will event
ually be made in it. But Senators
generally believe that it will be at
least several months before it passes
the Senate, as they all admit it will
eventually, and that there will be
important changes in it.
President Cleveland was one of the
first, outside of his Congeessional
colleagues, to extend congratulations
to Chairman Wilson on the success
of his tariff fight in the House. The
congratulations were telephoned
from the White House to the Capi
toi. Air. w uson is not a man of ro
bust health at best, and the contin
uous and arduous labor which he has
performed since becoming chairman
of the Wa's and Means Committee
has almost completely broken him
down. He has earned a rest and he
will probably leave Washington to
spend several weeks in some quiet
place. Other Democrats at times
allowed the noise of the opposition
to raise doubts of the passage of the
bill, but Mr. Wilson has been calmly
confident from the day the bill was
reported from the committee that it
would pass without being materially
changed. The result shows that his
confidence was built upon a firm
foundation the belief that men elect
ed to Congress on a tariff reform is
sue would not allow themselves to be
stampeded by a manufactured senti
ment against tariff reform.
Upon evidence presented by Judge
Durand. of Mich., who has been act
ing as special counsel in the smug
gling cases, the Treasury depart
ment has decided to push the indict
ment against Whitney L. Boise,
chairman of the Republican State
Central Committee of Oregon, for
complicity in the illegal landing of
Chinese in that State. Judge Du
rand brought with him to Washing
ton the chief of a baud of smugglers
who has turned state's evidence. He
it was who furnished the evidence
against Boise, and he implicates sev
eral other prominent Republicans of
the State who will be prosecuted if
sufficient corroborative evidence can
be secured.
The debate on the Tucker bill for
the repeal of the Federal election
laws will close in the Senate next
Tuesdaj' and the bill will be passed,
notwithstanding the silly stories
which have been widely circulated
attributing indifference on the part
of Democratic Senators towards the
bill. Not one word has been said by
a Democrat to indicate that a single
Democratic Senator will vote against
the bill or remain away to keep from
voting upon it. Neither is there
anv truth in tne statement tnat Air.
Cleveland has expressed opposition
to the bill.
Secretary Carlisle accepted bids
yesterday for the $30,000,000 of bonds
in accordance with the official an
nouncement recently made, notwith
standing the futile attempt of the
Knights of Labor to prevent the is
sue by obtaining an injunction from
the courts and the twaddle from Sen
ators Allen, Peffer, Stewart and
Hoar about the illegality of their is
sue. There is some talk in favor of
the Bailey resolution, which has
been favorably reported to the
House, being rushed through as a
hint to Secretary Carlisle that the
money received for the bonds shall
only be used to strengthen the gold
reserve fund, but as Representative
McCrearv has secured the right of
way for the next three days in the
House for his Hawaiian resolution it
is clear that Mr. Bailey's resolution
cannot come up until the expiration
of that time. Senator Sherman
strongly favors Secretary Carlisle's
action, but other Republicans are
trying to make trouble, hoping to
gain some partisan advantage.
Commodore R. W. Meade, who
will become a Rear Admiral within a
year, has been selected to command
the North Atlantic fleet, when Ad
miral Stanton succeeds Benham
A Great Explosion!
In these davs of gunpowder, dvnaniite,
giant iovder, and the like, tremendous
explosions are no ramy, out, uie great
est1 explosion of modern times is. with
out doubt, that of the "old-school"1 idea
that consumption is incurable. Thou
sands of lives have leen sacrificed to this
mistaken notion. Modern research has
established the fact that consumption is
a scrofulous disease of the lungs, and
that there is one remedy which will pos
itively eradicate it from thesvstem llr
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. Of
course, there were in the olden times
many who woukl have pronounced
modern explosives instruments of witch
craft: but there are, fortunately, few
to-dav who do not acknowledge that the
"Golden Medical Discovery" is the one
sovereign remedy for all scrofulous dis
eases, and consumption is one of them.
ALL OVER THE STATE.
A Summary of Curreut Events for the
Past Seven Days.
graded school movement is on
foot at Burlington.
The Leaksville Woolen Mills made
an assignment Friday.
The execution of Peter De Graff is
to take place publicly at Winston to
day. Rev. R. G. Pearson began his
meeting at Davidson College last
Sunday.
Thirtj'-five applicants for license
as attorneys were passed by the Su
preme Court Friday.
Fire destroyed four small resi
dences and a colored church at Wil
mington, Saturday night.
Illicit distilleries in Moore and
Chatham counties were raided by
revenue officers last week.
A big haul of crooked whiskey was
made by revenue officers in Gran
ville county last Thursday.
A young colored woman named
Loula Isely, who is in jail at G raham
on the charge of infanticide, is starv
ing herself to death.
Frank Hunt was accidentally killed
in Transylvania count', Saturday.
A tree which he was chopping fell on
him and broke his neck.
Lewis Workman was arrested at
Lexington, Monday, for passing
counterfeit money. He had $10 in
23-cent pieces on his person.
In Rowan county, Monday, at a
tree chopping given by R. V. Lanier,
a man named Green was struck by a
tree across his neck and seriously
hurt.
David Bass, of Iredell county,
while on his way to Statesville, Tues
day night, was shot from ambush by
some unknown person and painfully
injured.
The four-year-old daughter of Mary
Hollman, colored, in Granville coun
ty, accidentally caught on fire Satur
day, and was so badly burned that
she died soon after.
In Swain count', Tuesday, the
body of Jack Parris was found in the
woods, which showed signs of foul
play. It is presumed that he was
murdered for his money.
The ten-months-old child of George
Hamilton was almost roasted alive
at Newbern, Friday, while being left
alone by its mother for a few mo
ments in front of the fire-place.
Alfred D. Chunn, while crossing a
railroad trestle, Tuesday night, on
his way home from Asheville, made
a misstep, fell off on the rocks below,
killing himself almost instantly.
While playing baseball near Mor-
ganton, Thursday, a young man by
the name of Dale was accidentally
struck with a bat by a boy named
Roper and is not expected to live.
The seven-year-old son of Henry
Mints, while playing near the wharf
at Southport, Saturday, fell into the
river, but was saved from drowning
by the heroic action of Fred Bern
heim. The directors of the North Caroli
na Kauroaa met in ureensooro,
Thursday, and declared a semi-annual
dividend of 3 per cent. The af
fairs of the road are said to be in ex
cellent condition.
During an altercation between
William Barringc-r and a man named
Dennis, in Montgomery count',
Tuesday, Barringer knocked Dennis
in the head with a sledge hammer,
inflicting a mortal wound.
John Whittington, of Wilkes coun
ty, while on his way home from Mt.
Airy, Saturday, after selling his to
bacco, was waylaid by a negro,
knocked senseless and robbed of $21,
all the money on his person.
In Union county, Thursday, P. B.
Starnes, during a dispute with his
wife, shot her in the arm and head
and with a stick and the butt end of
a pistol beat her nearly to death. He
fled into South Carolina to escape
lynching.
Mrs. Viola Browning, of Durham
county, deserted her husband and
three children, Thursday night, and
eloped with John Dezern, a young
married man. When reaching Greens
boro the couple were arrested and
carried back by a Durham officer.
Two thieves convicted in' Asheville
criminal court last week requested
that their sentence be changed from
four years on the chain gang to five
years in the penitentiary. The rea
son they gave was that convicts re
ceived better treatment in the peni
tentiary than on the chain gang.
According to the Democrat, a Clin
ton baby was lying on its back when
something got the matter with it. It
was thought at first that it had swal
lowed the handle of the dinner bell
but this was found, and then it was
ascertained that the baby had only
swallowed an 8-tennv nail. It is
getting along all right.
The murder atrial of Edward J.
Fuller was concluded at Fayetteville
Friday evening when the jury found
the prisoner guilty as charged in the
indictment. The following day Judge
Bryan sentenced Fuller to be hanged
on March loth. Motion lor a new
trial being overruled, an appeal will
be taken to the Supreme Court.
A (Jueer Lawsuit.
Winston Sentinel. y
One of the queer cases that Judge
Battle had to settle at Concord last
week, was the State vs John Widen
house. There is not another like it -on
record. R. O. S. Wilson is -Wid-enhouse's
neighbor. An old fashion
ed rail fence divided their property.
It was a long fence, with the zigzag
corners, and Widenhouse wanted to
get his share of the rails. Miller
didn't see how he could get them
without destroying the fence, but
Widenhouse was determined on it.
At last he hit upon a plan. He got
a ball of twine and stretched a string
from one end of the fence to the
other, along the top, exactly in the
centre. Then he got a saw and saw
ed through the fence. He got half
of each panel and as a consequence
left Miller's half in a very demoral
ized condition. Miller indicted Wid
enhouse and the jury brought in a
verdict of guilty against the man
who sawed through the fence.
Robbed the House and Ift.
Statcsviile Landmark.
About three weeks ago a man call
ing himself Henry Spearman applied
to Mrs. M. E. Gaither, of Harmony,
this county, for work. He was given
employment on the farm. I.ast Sun
day Mrs. Gaither and family went to
church but as Spearman did not
want to go he was left alone at the
house. When the family returned
Spearman was gone as was also $13
or $20 in cash, a suit of clothes worth
about $23 and some other articles of
minor value. One of Mrs. Gaither' s
sons is attending schiol in States
ville and the other, Dr. F. B. Gaither,
was away from home at the time.
Word was sent to Statesville to look
out for Spearman but at last accounts
he had not been heard of. He was a
stranger in the community when em
plowd by Mrs. Gaither.
Drowned Near Hatteras.
Washington ;az'tte.
A terrible experience was under
gone a few days ago between Hatter
as and Ocracoke. Mr. Phil Gaskins
and Levin Quidly had started in a
sail boat to Hatteras, loaded too
heavy with set net stakes. The boat
capsized and Gaskins was drowned.
Quidly remained on the bottom of
the boat four days and nights with
out food or water, ' and was picked
up by Mr. Win. Gaskins. All this
happened in sight of the life-saving
station, we have heard, where the
men conld be seen walking on shore,
yet no assistance was sent the suffer
ing men.
I'liyKit'ian Say So.
The only way to cure salt rheum, ec
zema, pimples, loils. bhitches and ul
cers is by the use of Dr. David Kenne
dy's Favorite Remedy, "I used nuni
liers of so-calk-d blood puriiiers," writes
Mrs. lielinda Ilodsdon, of Haverhill, N.
IL, "without benefit, until I began to
take the Favorite Remcday. Although
suffering from an ulcerated sore leg, a
few bottles entirely cured me."
Pleaching aimed at the head seldom
strikes the heart.
With pure, vigorous blood coursing
through the veins and animating every
fibre of the lxnly, cold weather is not
only endurable but pleasant and agree
able. No other medicine is so certain
in its results as Ayer's Saisaparilla.
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